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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Tag Archives: memory
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 8
A Ghost argues with the Bright Spirit who was her brother Reginald: ‘It’s a lie. A wicked, cruel lie. How could anyone love their son more than I did? Haven’t I lived only for his memory all these years?’ ‘That … Continue reading
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 9
THE DAY WITH A WHITE MARK All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness: Was it elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part Of the cloudy crested, fifty-league-long, loud uplifted … Continue reading
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 12
On joy In speaking of this desire for our own far-off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 30
Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MAY 15
Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: And then one or other dies. And we think of this as love cut short; like a dance stopped in mid-career or a flower with its head unluckily snapped off—something truncated and … Continue reading
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MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST: DECEMBER 31
Yesterday You shall not go out with haste,…for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. —Isaiah 52:12 Security from Yesterday. “…God requires an account of what is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15). At … Continue reading
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MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST: OCTOBER 4
The Vision and The Reality …to those who are…called to be saints… —1 Corinthians 1:2 Thank God for being able to see all that you have not yet been. You have had the vision, but you are not yet to … Continue reading
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MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST: APRIL 3
“If You Had Known!” If you had known…in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. —Luke 19:42 Jesus entered Jerusalem triumphantly and the city was stirred to its very … Continue reading
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MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST: MARCH 4
Is This True of Me? None of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself… —Acts 20:24 It is easier to serve or work for God without a vision and without a call, because then … Continue reading
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